Deborah Joy Winans Quotes

Glory be and praise to God. I didn't do any of this. God did. I don't have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.

I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'

Everything is a part of what God's up to in your life, so I think our job is to embrace it. Everything. Embrace it all and consider it God's will for this moment.

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.

Act, and God will act.

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

I don't think God's through with me.

I believe in God. I got down on my knees and I said, 'I get it. If this isn't for me, then it isn't for me.' And then a week later, I started working. I worked on 'The Following,' I worked on 'Elementary,' I worked on a pilot and then I got 'Orange.' So literally from that moment of deep surrender, that's when you're blessed.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.

When you surrender to God, He makes things happen.

I'm very confident that God has a way of bringing good from difficulty.

Do your best and leave the rest to God.

I've tried to plan for my future in the past and it doesn't always work out the way I want it to, so leave it all up to the man upstairs.

Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan.

Leave the rest to the gods.

My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'